Honest Question? Is Liberalism Slowly Eroding American Culture?

I want to pose a question for debate..Is Liberalism determined to tear down America's traditional norms, values, and institutions? Conservatism has
issues too, but it supports traditional values and ideas, which I feel is a good thing. I realize not all Liberals support the erosion of traditional
values, however I'm beginning to see a trend and I would like to know if others see it to. Do individual rights trump social order? Are we "dumbing
down" our children because of this?

The radical departure from traditional curricula and academic standards linked to the institution of political correctness in the schools and
colleges raises serious questions as to educational purpose. Has the left deliberately diluted education in its self-interest?

Students and professors call for “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” to protect them from the trauma of dissent. Cowardly public
college authorities cave to their demands for fear of losing their jobs or funding from leftist government sources. Private schools also acquiesce to
unruly denizens to avoid media opprobrium for political incorrectness. Curricula are fraught with sops to political identity groups while much
traditional intellectual inquiry has disappeared resulting in too many shallow indoctrinated students.

Political correctness and indoctrination combined with academic dilution are so pervasively extreme as to suggest a conspiratorial force in
certain quarters. How can there be such a performance disparity between public schools and their charter school and international counterparts, not to
mention a longitudinal comparison, despite massively more spending? It cannot all be teacher incompetence.

Is Liberalism responsible for shaming masculinity and offering students "cry closets" at schools? Are we raising self-righteous, weak, spineless
young adults, who constantly whine and protest when things don't go the way they want?

My problem with Liberalism is that it’s more concerned with policing people’s language and thoughts without requiring them to do anything
to fix the problem. White liberal college students speak of “safe spaces”, “trigger words”, “micro aggressions” and “white privilege”
while not having to do anything or, more importantly, give up anything. They can’t even have a conversation with someone who sees the world
differently without resorting to calling someone a racist, homophobic, misogynistic, bigot and trying to have them banned from campus, or ruin them
and their reputation.

Race, gender, religion and sexual orientation are such difficult discussions to have, and many of us don’t get it right, but my problem with
some white liberals aren’t that they sometimes get it wrong, it’s their profound lack of self-awareness coupled with the smugness and
self-righteousness that they use to lecture to others.

Some men, are now experiencing gender role conflicts, because their masculine "ideals" are threatened. They need support and a shoulder to cry on,
because of "toxic male stereotypes." There's a Liberal belief brewing, that suggests that traditional "masculine" males are restrictive emotionally
and are afraid to cry when they're experiencing disappointment, or grief. Now some men feel intimidated by the self reliance and self assuredness
displayed by traditional male "stereotypes." These men seek counseling now, because sexist attitudes are now having detrimental effects on their
mental health. Why all of sudden? I've never had a problem shedding a tear, or having empathy for someone, even though I'm a traditional masculine
male. Where did "they" get that information from? Why are some men experiencing depression over this? Why are they internalizing these negative
stereotypes and prejudices? Why do Liberals attack masculinity as the cause of this and not their own reactionary movement, where people blame
"triggers" for these problems.

Did the Liberal mindset of "diversity" and "inclusiveness" cause the radical change to the Boys Souts of America? Is this good for America?

“Liberalism,” Kalb says, “is the power that hides itself. To satisfy its promise of equality, freedom, and democracy, it must keep
people from exercising their freedom.” It achieves this by declaring all cultures and beliefs to be equal and deserving of equal respect. It follows
that none of them can be allowed to exert its authority in respect of anything that matters. “All significant decisions must be made by someone who
can pass himself off as an outside authority applying neutral standards of human rights, economic efficiency, and administrative
effectiveness.”

Inclusiveness is inherently contradictory. It cannot cope intellectually or politically, for instance, with the reverse racism it encourages
and sanctions. Beyond that, it and its twin principle, tolerance, simply “make no sense as general standards,” Kalb says. Because most people are,
by official standards, “intolerant,” their simplest actions and ideas, so far from being “tolerated,” must instead be suppressed.

Emphasis on differences creates diversity, and attempting to eliminate their effect suppresses the natural ways people connect and function.
The result is a chaotic hodge-podge forced into an artificial order by bureaucracy, propaganda, therapy, and money.

Lastly, lets discuss how this Liberal view of "inclusiveness" is now changing how teens become involved in high school athletics. Just recently, a
New Jersey parent complained about her daughter being "cut" from Hanover Park High School's cheerleading squad. That complaint made the school board
change the policy, into an all inclusive one...where no one gets cut.

The New Jersey high school sophomore told CBS New York that she has trained four days a week for the last 10 years in hopes of becoming a
member of the prestigious "Black Squad." But now Krueger is worried that all that work was for nothing. That's because her school, in order to be
"inclusive," announced a new rule that says anyone who tries out for the cheer team has to be accepted.

Jada Alcontara, a sophomore, argued that the new policy doesn't encourage students to better themselves, News12 reported. “I came up here to
state that I did not put in 18 months of work to lead up to this moment, just to be told it didn’t matter anymore,” she said.

Parents were upset by the decision, too. Sharon Iossa said the policy sets a "bad precedent." “Everybody doesn’t get a trophy," she told
CBS. "You can’t be a Giants player just because you play football.”

Sandy Prociello, a resident of nearby Whippany, wondered what effect this policy could have on the children later in life. “What about life?
What about getting a job? You know?" she told CBS New York. "You’re going to have your mom come with you, too, to hold your hand?”

I want to pose a question for debate..Is Liberalism determined to tear down America's traditional norms, values, and institutions?

In a word, yes. Liberalism is not changing America for the better... far from it.

Remember fundamentally changing America?

That's been going on since the late 1800's.

They envision a utopia where beneficent technocrats take care of every aspect of a citizen's lives, from cradle to grave, for the betterment of the
citizenry. That is pretty much the antitheses of the America most people want, so let's "educate" the masses to ensure they want it!!! Sound like the
Democratic Party platform at all?

Now, you can point out that it won't work, show them that human nature ensures that such a system will turn into a tyrannical nation, point out to
them the massive failures that have always happened when you attempt a Hegelian approach to running a country.

But no, they are smarter, much smarter than ordinary citizens. This time it will work!

I'm OK with the United States accepting a variety of nationalities and cultures. I'm not OK with a movement wanting to eliminate traditional values
in order to be "politically correct" and not offend anyone.

Well as with any movement people tend to get carried away but at the same time it wasn't all that long ago the a cookbook was considered women's
literature.
Many of our traditional values are repressive to someone.

a reply to: shawmanfromny
I guess it depends what“traditional values” means to you.

Traditional values to me means truth, respect, and care and concern for your fellow human beings, no matter who they are or where they come from.
That’s what I was taught as a kid anyway.

If you mean taking things back to how they were in the 1950’s Jeff Sessions style then yeah, burn it all down. Dinosaurs with outdated world views
don’t need to be in any position to set the marks for the rest of us.

Not everyone goes through life so scared they try to find refuge in the past.

What exactly is American culture?
Last time I checked if I walked from one end of new York city to another end I would see so many different cultural influences I wouldn't know what to
call america.

Being liberal means you don't accept the traditional norms of a society, instead you accept change as it comes and embrace it and try to go with it.
Of course there's a lot of bad change but there is also good change that has come from that mindset.
If everyone lived an ultra conservative life style we might as well just live like the Amish people or like super religious people.

I think what has been changing Americas culture is not one mindset alone it's a clash of both. I honestly think the internet plays a much bigger role
to be honest.

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